The Bureau of Labor Statistics signaled to staff members Monday morning that work would continue as usual at the statistical agency, where President Donald Trump fired the top official Friday over a ...

President Donald Trump fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), citing her mishandling of ...

Most economists say that the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a nonpolitical agency staffed by people obsessed with getting the ...

After weak employment data, President Trump criticized the BLS and fired its commissioner, claiming job numbers were rigged.

President Donald Trump has a pattern of dismissing or altering data that reflects poorly on him. During his first term, he ...

The BLS surveys both households and businesses for its monthly jobs report. After releasing an initial report, it's common for the agency to issue revisions to the prior monthly figures, as more ...

Trump fired the previous head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after he was unhappy with a weaker-than-expected July jobs ...

But, BLS reports like the monthly jobs report (officially known as the Employment Situation Summary) and JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary) have drawbacks as well.

For that, The Conference Board has its Employment Trends Index. It comes out just after the BLS jobs report and crunches together a bunch of data points to try to anticipate what’s coming.

That’s just one of the eye-opening findings in MyPerfectResume’s latest analysis of January 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, which looked at which states offer the strongest job ...